thrilled - Story 150114 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Hey, Riley, a word?" The words from the swim coach were enough to send a jolt of pure energy through Riley. He swam freestyle, loved the sensation of the water, the competition.

"We want you to try the backstroke," the coach continued. A wave of giddiness washed over him. He felt a smile spread across his face, seemingly of its own accord.

He pictured himself slicing through the water, the rhythmic kick, the powerful pull. He wanted to start right now. "Absolutely! I'm ready!"

Emotion: thrilled

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.31 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 0.07

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion thrilled. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 thrilled stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the thrilled emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the thrilled vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.613
`!`	0.544
`B`	0.508
`🤩`	0.499
`🎉`	0.457

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.601
`😞`	-0.536
`ness`	-0.462
`😥`	-0.351
`😔`	-0.341